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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

boilerbay.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2010

2005

2002

2019

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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